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 Centenary Prize 2015 Winner
Recently the Department hosted the RSC Awards symposium and Professor Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University) received the Centenary Prize 2015. Awarded for his development of spherical nucleic acids and new nanotechnology-based tools in biomedicine and
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 Bruker Thesis Prize
Dr Claudia Tait has been awarded the prestigious Bruker Thesis Prize by the ESR Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry “recognizing outstanding work by PhD students in the field of ESR Spectroscopy”. Claudia undertook her DPhil work in CAESR under
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 Nature Chemistry Science Papers highlighted
Dr Lingbing Kong’s work conducted in the groups of Professor Ben Davis and Professor Hagan Bayley has been published in Nature Chemistry. Single-molecule recapitulation of bacterial sugar export has been achieved by combining chemical polyglycosylation
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 Poster Prize Marcin Konowalczyk
Congratulations to Marcin Konowalczyk, first year DPhil student in Christiane Timmel’s group in CAESR. Marcin won the poster prize for his work on optically detected magnetic field effects at the 49th RSC ESR conference in at the University of Essex
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 ISACS19 Chemistry World Poster Prize for Aubert Ribaucourt
Congratulations to Aubert Ribaucourt, a student on the OxIOSCR Marie Curie Innovative Doctoral Programme and member of the Hodgson group, for winning the Chemistry World Poster Prize at the 19th International Symposium on Advancing the Chemical Sciences:
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Open Access via ORA – the Oxford University Research Archive
ORA provides a home for Oxford's research outputs. Copyright-permitting, full-text copies of the University's publications are made available open access via ORA. |
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Early and mid-Career Research Fellowships The Department seeks to support fellowship applications from outstanding individuals who are at a career stage where a prestigious independent fellowship would offer the opportunity to develop their research identity and become a chemistry research leader of the future. |
Prospective Synthetic Chemistry DPhil Students: Oxford Chemistry has 20 funded DPhil positions available via the new EPSRC CDT in 
Prospective doctoral students in Theoretical and Computational
Chemistry: funded positions are available via the new EPSRC
Centre for Doctoral Training in Teaching: Oxford Chemistry offers world-class teaching, consistently rated among the best in the UK. Students study a four-year course, a unique feature of which is spending their final year working full-time on a project with some of the leading researchers in the UK. more...
Periodic – the Department of Chemistry magazine. Issue 5
Outreach: Engaging schools and the wider community in chemistry and science is an important activity for academic staff and students in the Department. Oxford Chemistry regularly hosts visits and events within the Department and takes part in local and national activities to demonstrate chemistry’s central role in everyday life. more...
Research: Oxford is one of the leading chemistry research departments in the world with around 80 academic staff carrying out international-level research, and an annual research income of around £15 million. According to the outcome of the REF 2014 assessment published Dec 18th 2014, 49% of the research profile submitted by Oxford Chemistry was regarded as 4* world-leading quality. The Department has not only the highest volume of 4* research of any UK Chemistry department- by some margin - but was also judged to have the top research environment. The Impact of the department’s research outside academia is also highly rated with over 55% in the 4* category.
The Department is currently engaged in a number of innovative themes of work including: Catalysis; Sustainable Energy Chemistry; Advanced functional materials; Synthesis; Interfacial Science; Innovative Measurement and photon science; Chemistry at the interface with biology and medicine; Kinetics, dynamics and mechanism; Theory and modelling of complex systems more...
EU Funded Training Centres:
Facilities: The department contains several small research facilities (SRFs), which are dedicated suites of equipment run by experts who aid in experimental design and optimisation. These facilities are some of the best equipped in the country, supporting chemical research and providing analysis for students within the Chemistry department, other departments within the University and industry alike. more...
Commercialisation: The Department has an unrivalled track record in protecting and commercialising the innovative work of research staff. Over £80 million in cash has been raised for the University as a result of spin out activities from research carried out by Oxford chemists. more...